Kent Bachir Top Executive
Kent is an industry recognized name in Product Discovery, Design, and Delivery as an Executive Leader, Business Developer, Program Manager, and Technical Practitioner. Demonstrated history of building profitable, sustainable and growing organizations; developing and implementing strategic programs; hiring, training and mentoring staff.
Adept at fostering and sustaining professional and productive business relationships. Knowledgeable in market trends, complex operations and oversight of large budgets and workforces. Extensive experience with mission-critical operations and crisis engineering management. Skilled in cost control and reduction strategies. Strong foundation in safety and quality control standards. High familiarity with financial analysis and forecasting principles.
Super Industry:
Quantum Technology
Headquarters:
Greater Boston
Followers:
2610
Title:
Director New Product & Program Management
Company:
IonQ
Company Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ionqco/
Current Job Duration:
1 yr 3 mos
Country:
United States
License And Certifications:
Name: PMP
Authority: Project Management Institute
Company ID: None
Date: Unknown
URL: https://linkedin.com/company/11352
Work Experience:
Title: Director New Product & Program Management
Company: IonQ
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ionqco/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 04-2025
Ends At: Present
Description: Strategic Leadership & Transformation:
Corporate strategy leader of the team delivering world-first quantum superiority.
DARPA Quantum Benchmark Initiative strategy owner responsible to deliver 2M qubits in 2030.
Transformed academic start-up into a business capable of designing, manufacturing, commissioning, and operating quantum computers with a focus on time-to-market.
Corporate strategy leader, driving executive workshops, authoring 1-3-5 Year Integrated Business Plans (IBP), building Annual Operating Plans (AOP), and staffing forecasts.
Drove M&A activity for $1B acquisition of Oxford Ionics, $300M acquisition of Capella Space, and $309M acquisition of quantum memory company LightSync.
PMO:
Directly responsible for 92% of company Revenue Recognition, with 100% on-time-to-promise quantum computer delivery.
Lead Technical Program Management Office (PMO) across Quantum Networking and Quantum Computing including managing Program Managers, cost / schedule / scope.
Signatory of foreign and domestic term sheets, business proposals, and contracts. Increased revenue via architecting advanced contract vehicles and strategies including Hardware-as-a-Service (Haas), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS).
“Defense Readiness Plan” architect preparing dual-use technologies for ITAR, DFARS, Export Compliance, security clearances, and classification with a focus on business agility and floor space.
Program managed Engineering, Supply Chain, IT, Security, Data Center Resilience, Datacenter Ops.
Owner of the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)
Technology Roadmap & Innovation:
Advanced company culture leading to the creation of an interwoven fabric of roadmaps, including: Technology, Components, Platform, Data, Engineering Tools, and Compliance Roadmaps
Modularized experimental quantum hardware into PCBAs, modules and subsystems, enabling productization and reuse strategies, resulting in acceleration of novel technology innovation.
Title: Director of Engineering
Company: BAE Systems
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bae-systems/
Industry: Defense & Space
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 07-2021
Ends At: 04-2025
Description: Electronic Warfare Executive with strategic oversight over BAE’s multi-billion-dollar Electronic Warfare US Defense business with four Program portfolios (LOTAC, TACAIR, AEWS, SFF), dozens of projects, including F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, F-22, F-16, F-15, LRASM, and multiple classified programs.
Pioneer Electronic Warfare Extreme vision, set a product-centric future vs. program-focused mindset. Modernized New Business Proposals to include a product-based reuse strategies, modularized architectures, and metadata for use throughout RFP, BOE, negotiation, award, and execution.
Directed 167 engineers, spanning Software, RF, Systems, Hardware, Electrical, Mechanical, and Project Management domains. Optimized sector reporting structures, 40% headcount growth over 14 months in a competitive talent market.
Architected and executed comprehensive digital strategy, driving digital transformation across a $2B organization with 1,300+ employees. Stepped into a “Data Rich, Information Poor” environment, produced practical, real world solutions creating Enterprise Level cloud-based containerized micro-services enabling seamless integration of digital threads across multiple domains into a unified digital fabric. Initiated and led pilot proof-of-concept projects to explore innovative solutions, showcasing the effectiveness of emerging technologies in solving complex business challenges.
Pioneered the creation of a true Digital Twin by reverse engineering existing products via performance test data, enabling cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning (ML), Generative AI, and IoT to optimize operations and accelerate time-to-market.
Championed Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation and emulation to reduce development cycles by 20%.
Championed Industry 4.0 interoperability, ensuring seamless data governance. Conducted risk assessments with cyber security towards regulatory standard compliance.
Title: Senior Principal
Company: Raytheon
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/raytheon/
Industry: Defense & Space
Company Size: 10001+
Location: Greater Boston
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 06-2018
Ends At: 07-2021
Description: Strategic leader for integration of digital technologies into Raytheon’s engineering and manufacturing processes, aligned initiatives with company’s broader business objectives. Managed cross-functional teams in the development and execution of technology roadmaps, ensuring that digital projects were completed on time and within budget.
Executive Council member at DOD’s largest electronics assembly house, Raytheon’s Circuit Card Center of Excellence, with $500M of business across over 40 programs including: LTAMDS, AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM, AN/TPY-2 , AN/AQ20C, F-15, FA18, F-16, F-35, Phalanx, Coyote, CIV Bradley, Storm breaker, ATFLIR, Harpoon, APY-10, APG-79, SM-2, SM-3, ESSM, THAAD, Zumwalt, NGJ, Silent Knight, Sentinel and multiple program “not of record”.
Market Center of Excellence capabilities as a business discriminator in the pursuit of New Business Introduction wins.
Lead the realization of defense electronics for domestic and international customers, at the junction of Engineering, Manufacturing Operations and New Product Introduction (NPI). Championed culture of innovation and continuous improvement through standardization of processes and tools across the organization.
Set forth vision, vet technology roadmaps and contribute to the “Factory of the Future” as it applies to cycle-time, lead-time, and on-time-to-promise.
Enforce IP commonality standards with respect to reuse, commonality, and reduced time-to-market. Drive capital budget, indirect-by-direct expenses, and control of operating expenses. Direct portfolio strategies, champion initiatives to improve cost, schedule, and quality metrics.
Chair pursuits into RF / digital systems, robotic automation, environmental equipment, facilities expansion, consolidation, and modernization. Conduct early design engagement towards Design for Test (DFT), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Automation (DFA), Design for Repair (DFR), along with test station design and robotics.
Title: Engineering Manager
Company: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15544/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Pullman, WA
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 08-2017
Ends At: 06-2018
Description: Lead the activities of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and technicians to prepare the tools, systems and processes necessary to introduce new products into the manufacturing production environment.
Own all aspects of project management, including gathering information, planning, assigning tasks, coordinating with partners and reporting results. Ensure all required output is delivered on time and meeting specifications for quality objectives and cost.
Clearly define the processes, tools, metrics and standards the team will follow to accomplish their goals. Hold employees accountable for performance. Align processes with other Manufacturing Operations groups. Continuously improve processes, tools, metrics and standards.
Write specifications to Manufacturing partners for the development and creation of the tools, hardware and processes necessary for manufacturing the new products.
Provide design for manufacturability, design for test direction, design for automation, design for repair to R&D with respect to concepts and specify requirements to make best use of known equipment and processes.
Encourage the professional development of the employees on your team. Establish training needs for all employees and oversee new employee training.
Title: Engineering Manager
Company: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15544/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 01-2013
Ends At: 08-2017
Description: Manage professionals, project teams, and managers in a global matrix environment across several sites.
Manage New Product Introduction annual project load of 330+ engineering change orders from initial product specification through technical release and production release including new and existing products.
Experienced in industrial RF Wireless, Real-Time Automation Controllers, Programmable Logic Controllers, server-class computers, integrated communication optical networks (tele-comm), software defined network switches, ethernet security gateways, managed/unmanaged switches, meters, data transceivers, transmission engineering protection, distribution engineering protection, distribution control, substation protection, motor protection, remote I/O, generator protection, arc-flash and overhead/below ground faulted circuit sensing.
Ultimate approver of system spec, test requirement specification, software requirement specification, test coverage analysis, FMEA, test plan, test script and validation documents. Promote and enforce Design For Test (DFT) policy and documents.
Automated Test Equipment (ATE) owner for AOI, Boundary Scan JTAG (IEEE-1149.1/1149.6, IEEE-1687), fixture design, flying probe, ICT, Built In Self Test (BIST), functional board test, Hi-potential (HIPOT), ground bond, Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), automated visual testing, calibration, configuration and final test. Practice Just In Time (JIT) lean manufacturing techniques including Kanban systems and Heijunka release methods. Metric reporting for On-Time-to-Promise (OTP), false-failures and other factory metrics. Balance cost of test and test coverage as it pertains to initial quality.
System designer and owner for agile-based JIRA and Microsoft Project based project management solutions.
Department of Defense (ITAR, unclassified) and Department of Energy projects
Title: Senior Systems Design Engineer
Company: BTECH Inc
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/btech-inc/
Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Company Size: 11-50
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 08-2008
Ends At: 12-2012
Description: Responsible for all technical tasks between sales and shipping.
Design battery monitoring systems for industrial power clients operating in mission critical applications including: uninterruptible power supplies, telecom, switchgear, generator, rail signal, emergency lighting, life support and oil/gas. Design high & low voltage hardware, software and firmware designs remotely accessible via modbus, TCP/IP, USB, serial, modem and SMS communications.
Research battery chemistry, charging requirements, geometry and output characteristics for valve regulated lead acid (VRLA), flooded wet cell and other batteries technologies.
Research new mathematical models to predict failure modes.
Design wiring harnesses with respect to electromagnetic noise interference patterns.
Manage Project Engineering Department staff.
Oversee authoring of electrical /mechanical CAD documents.
Communicate deliverables to production staff, sales and CEO.
Communicate new product ideas.
Manage ISO 9001 department audits.
Title: Project Manager
Company: BTECH Inc
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/btech-inc/
Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Company Size: 11-50
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 08-2008
Ends At: 12-2012
Description: Run all international and domestic projects
Coordinate retrieval of customer specifications.
Coordinate prioritization of department cycles.
Manage corporate relationships between UPS manufacturers, battery manufacturers, technical directors, construction foremen and end users.
Conflict resolution between third parties hindering delivery, installation or startup.
Title: R&D Test Engineer
Company: Multispectral Imaging Inc.
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 12-2007
Ends At: 05-2008
Description: Opto-electrical test engineer for night vision sensor technology using MEMs.
Design automated testing equipment (ATE) combining custom analog / digital electronics, lab equipment, network control, data collection, analysis & report management systems.
Create test plans, design analysis software
Analyze prototype charge coupled MEMs focal plane arrays (CCD FPAs).
Analyze research of the near-band, far-band, SWIR & visible spectrums under Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Cornell nanofab.
Communicate redesign feedback to process engineers.
Communicate issues to vacuum packaging and clean room facilities.
Education:
School: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Degree: Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering
Activities: None
Headline:
Tech Executive | Productizing Quantum & Advanced Hardware Systems | Program + Engineering Leadership